Is it relevant when the Barbados Government Minister criticizing the Jamaica Gleaner for supporting the Nation journalists criminally charged with publishing child porn is himself a veteran profiteer of the online porn industry?

We are privileged that someone of such importance as Barbados’ minister of industry and international business, Donville Inniss, who, in current circumstances, we would expect to be extremely busy, would take the time to note, much more respond to, the comments of this newspaper.

As it is, Mr Inniss has advised The Gleaner to mind its own business and to pay attention to “the rot in Jamaica”, which, like Barbados, is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and a partner in regional affairs.

Unhappily, we offended the goodly Mr Inniss with our observations on Sunday about the arrest of three journalists at Barbados’ Nation newspaper – publisher Vivian-Anne Gittens; Roy Morris, the editor-in-chief; and Sanka Price, the news editor – for publishing a photograph of two minors having sex at school.

I am astonished that the Bajan press has not picked up on BFP’s very detailed articles about the porn industry king Donville Inniss. In the UK or the USA the press would be camping on his front lawn demanding answers.

That says everything about the press in Bim. You know the public is not well served by the Bajan press. Thank God for BFP, Barbados Underground and the little blogs that print the truth every day.

We know that BFP’s articles are true because of the documents like trademark info showing that Donville Inniss company trademarked some of the Orgasm websites. We know because you can still do a history search on the previous owners of the websites (HELLO DONVILLE!!!) and we know it’s true because whenever something not accurate wordpress hosts make BFP and BU remove it.

I am assuming that the Nation republished an excerpt from the video the two 16 year olds put on the web, the same one the court has found to be sufficiently in breach of the law to warrant imposing a curfew on the two 16 year olds and threatening them with Dodds.

If that is the case it seems entirely logical for the police to go after the Nation or anybody else publishing any of the material once they got the Court to take a position on the material itself.

To let the Nation off “scot free” would be to make both the Court and the Police appear to be practicing double standards.

If my assumption is correct then the three folks from Nation will fry for the most right and proper reason …. consistency in the application of the law for all …. the old sauce for the goose rule.